It takes a good amount of time and money to establish a home. Eviction can erase all that. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Eviction is much more an inevitability than a result of irresponsibility. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Children didn't shield families from eviction: They exposed them to it. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“The effect of living with children on receiving an eviction judgment was equivalent to falling four months behind in rent.12” — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
You see one eviction, and you're overcome, but then there's another one and another one and another one. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
I used to brag that I can hold up any eviction - even if the landlord had legal rights, I could hold… — Ed Lee Copy Share Image
Eviction affects old folks and young folks, sick people and able-bodied people, white communities and African-American communities. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Without the ability to plant roots and invest in your community or your school - because you're paying 60, 70, 80 percent… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
The face of the eviction epidemic is moms and kids, especially poor moms from predominantly Latino and African American neighborhoods. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
If you have someone who is paying 88 percent of her income on rent, and we have laws that allow a landlord… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
I saw people get fired after their eviction. But when I found that if you get evicted, your chances of losing your… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Eviction," Frieda said. "You can't pay, you can't stay." She said in Yiddish, "Es iz shver tzu makhen a leben." It's hard… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
If eviction has these massive consequences that we all pay for, a very smart use of public funds would be to invest… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Arguably, the families most at need of housing assistance are systematically denied it because they're stamped with an eviction record. Moms and… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
I was one of six children raised by a single mom who cleaned houses, not always knowing if we would come home… — Eric Adams Copy Share Image
There were evictions that I saw that I know I'll never forget. In one case, the sheriff and the movers came up… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Efforts to establish local cohesion and community investment are thwarted in neighborhoods with high turnover rates. In this way, eviction can unravel… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Evictions used to be rare in this country. They used to draw crowds. There are scenes in literature where you can come… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Moms that get evicted are depressed and have higher rates of depressive symptoms two years later. That has to affect their interactions… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Eviction's fallout is severe. Losing a home sends families to shelters, abandoned houses, and the street. It invites depression and illness, compels… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
Who can think that this eviction of Germans was undertaken only as a temporary experiment? Those who adopted the decision on the… — Vyacheslav Molotov Copy Share Image
Half of NYC's homeless populations are families.Homeless people have been ignored for too long. I'll just say this: If you are a… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
We want to make sure that anyone facing eviction has access to high-quality legal representation. — London Breed Copy Share Image
I met a landlord who will pay you to move at the end of the week and let you use his van.… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
I surely haven't only dealt with film people. As a lawyer, I also fought against evictions, or worked on leases - the… — Giovanna Cau Copy Share Image
It's true that eviction affects the young and the old, the sick and the able-bodied. It affects white folks and black folks… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
There is a deep connection, when we're talking about certain market forces and a legal structure that inhibits low or moderate income… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Between 2009 and 2011, more than one in eight Milwaukee renters were displaced involuntarily, whether by formal or informal eviction, landlord foreclosure,… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
I think for writers, I think it's really important to court eviction from your tribe: to expose things and to wake people… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
Poverty is a relationship that involves a lot of folks, rich and poor alike. I was looking for something that brought a… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
When you're following people after their eviction, they often start out kind of optimistic, in a way - it's a really tough… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Some children are threatened with loss of privileges such as money, cell phones, cars or even eviction from home if they do… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
Knock knock. who there? Your eviction notice you got 3 dayz to be out. — Damian Coleman Copy Share Image
“the presence of children in the household almost tripled a tenant’s odds of receiving an eviction judgment.” — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
If you just catalog the effects eviction has on people's live and neighborhoods, it's pretty troubling. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
